Morning all, Ok, we are going to be off the grid with no phone service for a couple months in another country. We will have access to wifi periodically. Any suggestions on how to receive and send texts. Example. If we charge something, sometimes they send a text to verify it's you. If I could access those, that would be great. I really don't care about phone calls. We don't get many and I'm going to change our voicemail to send an email instead of calling or leaving a message. Any ideas, suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.

TCI wrote:Morning all, Ok, we are going to be off the grid with no phone service for a couple months in another country. We will have access to wifi periodically. Any suggestions on how to receive and send texts. Example. If we charge something, sometimes they send a text to verify it's you. If I could access those, that would be great. I really don't care about phone calls. We don't get many and I'm going to change our voicemail to send an email instead of calling or leaving a message. Any ideas, suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.sure. when you have access to wifi you'll be back on the grid which msans you'll be able to send and receive texts.

Some cell service is available in many countries depending on service for a resonable fee.

My regular texts are sms, which will not work on wi-fi with my phone and provider. I do have a Google Voice account with which I can call or text on wi-fi. Your phone and provider might be different

two options:1) with our phones we can use them out of the country for a nominal cost/wk/month etc. especially if it is for text messages only. Our phones don't incure any extra charges for Canada or mexico. 2) garmin inreach. Uses sat service (Iridium network) and you can set up a list of people you can text and it is also possible for them to text you. And since your off grid it works for SOS or emergency extraction if worse comes to worse. It will work anywhere in the world. We've used our from above the artic circle in Canada to the tip of south america, all over europe and asia.And you can allow others to at least track and see where you are at.works with bluetooth on your phone if needed to to speach to text instead of the inreach "keyboard"however I don't think the inreach will work for the two factor authentication app's.

Look at Google FI.https://fi.google.com/about/

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Moderator
Nov 08, 2021
A free Google Voice (GV) account makes this an easy process. You can receive/send text messages from any computer or smartphone via WiFi. You can use GV free phone number you select, or port your existing number for a fee.

When I'm working remotely, I don't even use my phone. Make/receive all calls from my PC from GV while working. Outgoing calls see my smartphone number.

Becoming a trend even in business environment. We have Cisco VoIP phones at work, but can use their software app on our PC/laptops to make/receive/transfer/conference calls. Don't even have to touch the handset.
ktmrfs
Explorer II
Nov 09, 2021
ssthrd wrote:
When I am out of a service area, I can use OnStar to connect when I have to. I have the basic plan which gives me 3 gb a month. Works for me.

Onstar only works when you have access to ATT. now the onstar cell phone amp is stronger than a handheld phone so you may get coverage in places ATT doesn't have coverage. There are lots of places that onstar doesn't work, been there done that. Out west it is spotty.

https://www.onstar.com/us/en/coverage_map

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